The Classic version provides you access to the powerful and long trusted SYNOPSYS™ Lens Design Software. In the Ui-Plus version, we integrate all the features of the Classic version and wrap around it with an enhanced, streamlined, and workflow-oriented User Interface to allow new users to kickstart their designs with ease.
Our new version: V2.103 for UI-Plus Edition and V16.103 for the Classic Edition.
For customers familiar with Optical Systems Design, LLC and SYNOPSYS™ Lens Design Software, you may be wondering where the Download Button on this page relocated to. We have activated a customer portal where paid customers may register and gain access to the SYNOPSYS™ download.
Paid customers:
Should access the download via their portal. If you’re having problems with the portal, or need assistance, contact us at support@osdoptics.com and a team member will be with you shortly.
To gain access to the download link, login here or navigate to the Login menu item within this site.
Trial Customers:
Those wanting to trial SYNOPSYS™, please use the form below to submit a request for your 30-day trial version (with a 12 surface limit).
Installation:
Unzip the installer to run the installation. If you have a security key, you can run the software with no limitation. For software trial, click through the first two dialogs regarding network license keys. Then select ‘Let me run the program with the limit of 12 surfaces’ when prompt.
SYNOPSYS™ Security Key installation and Renewal
If you have just purchased a new license to SYNOPSYS™, please follow the instructions in the file, SYNOPSYS™ Security Key Installation and Renewal, to activate the security key. You will also need to download the key files for the installation. If you are installing network key, please download the Sentinel Protection Installer 7.6.9.zip and install it on your key server only. If you have an older version of the Sentinel key driver (prior to January 2012), you will need to download the new driver in the (Keyfiles.zip).
DLL’s for SYNOPSYS™
After successfully installing the security key, if you get error messages regarding missing DLLs when you first run SYNOPSYS™ , you can download SYNOPSYS_DLL_IA32.zip to resolve this problem. Unzip it, Copy and paste all the .dll files into your SYNOPSYS™ folder (usually, it is C:\SYNOPSYS). After that, SYNOPSYS™ Version 15 should run.
Starting Guide:
If you are new to SYNOPSYS™, the following technical guides will be useful in getting started:
Security key driver:
- Single User Keys: Sentinel Key Driver 7.6.0.zip (2.7 MB)
- Network Keys (on the key server only): Sentinel Protection Installer 7.6.9.zip (9 MB)
Security key driver cleanup utility:
If there is some catastrophic event happens to your key driver, please use follow the steps below to clean up the key driver before installing the new one.
- Remove all Safenet key drivers
- Take key out of USB port
- Run the correct utility for your version of windows
- Reboot
Click here to see a revision history of SYNOPSYS™ and what has changed in the latest update.
Download the new version of the Secure Update Utility.
Gemalto has upgraded their software, and you will need to use this updated version when you access the upw file to update your dongle. If you downloaded the file Keyfiles.zip prior to 9 January 2012, you need this version . If you have other software that uses the Safenet Sentinel dongle, and if that software installed the update utility, you probably also have the obsolete version. To be safe, we recommend you download and install our updated version.
Documentation:
All SYNOPSYS™ documentation is now contained in the download file. That means it is always up to date, and you don’t have to thumb through a paper copy when you want to look up something. We recommend that new users print out the Tutorial Manual, read it completely, and work the simple examples. The second component, the User’s Manual, is too long to print — but it is completely cross-referenced so you can find any topic, within seconds, on your monitor screen. When you run the program, type HELP UM to open the User’s Manual, or HELP TM to open the Tutorial Manual. There are many ways to open the manual to a desired topic instantly. Read about them in Section 13.1 of the manual. This is probably the friendliest help feature in the software industry.
Prospective users are invited to examine a pdf file of the Table of Contents of the UM. Look it over, and if you agree this is an enormously powerful program, then download and install the demo version. Then you can read all the details.
RUSSIAN We also provide a pdf file of the Tutorial Manual in Russian. Click to download a zip file of the document.
JAPANESE Click here to download a zip file of the Tutorial Manual in Japanese.
FRENCH Click here to download a zip file of the Tutorial Manual in French